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Books

  • Anti-Catholicism in the Mexican Revolution. Ed., with David S. Dalton. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2024.
  • The Sonoran Dynasty in Mexico: Revolution, Reform, and Repression. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2023. Won Honorable Mention for the Alfred B. Thomas Award for Best Book in Latin American Studies.
  • The Mexican Revolution: A Documentary History. Ed., with Timothy Henderson. Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing, 2022.
  • The Once and Future Revolution: Social Upheaval and the Negotiation of Rule during Mexico’s Long Twentieth Century (with Gilbert M. Joseph). Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2013.  History Book Club selection, in second printing.
  •  The Last Caudillo: Alvaro Obregón and the Mexican Revolution. Chichester, England: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
  • Aftershocks: Earthquakes and Popular Politics in Latin America. Ed., with Lyman L. Johnson.  Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2009.
  • State Governors in the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1952: Portraits in Conflict, Courage, and Corruption. Ed., with William H. Beezley.  Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2009.
  • Mexican Mosaic: A Brief History of Modern Mexico. Wheeling, IL: Harlan Davidson, 2008.
  • Plutarco Elías Calles and the Mexican Revolution. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006. Won the Alfred B. Thomas Award for Best Book in Latin American Studies.
  • Mexico OtherWise: Modern Mexico in the Eyes of Foreign Observers. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005.
  • Tools of Progress: A German Merchant Family in Mexico City , 1865-present. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2004 (also published in German as Werkzeuge des Fortschritts: Eine deutsche Händlerfamilie in Mexiko von 1865 bis zur Gegenwart. Stuttgart: Verlag Dieter Heinz, 2002).
  • In the Shadow of the Giant: The Making of Mexico’s Central America Policy, 1876-1930. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1996.

Research Interests

19th and 20th century Mexico: political economy, political violence, immigration, Mexico in world affairs, Mexican Revolution.

Courses Taught

  • CAPI 1501 Capitalism in Global Context
  • CAPI 4050 Capitalism Studies Capstone
  • HIST 2207/LTAM 2207 Modern Latin America
  • HIST 3002/LTAM 3164 Latin American Political Economy
  • HIST 3010/LTAM 3360 History and Culture through Film
  • HIST 3176/LTAM 3276 History of Mexico
  • HIST 4600/LTAM 4600 Latin American in the Cold War
  • HIST 6000/LTAM 6000 Latin America in the Era of Globalization
  • HIST 6000/LTAM 6000 The United States and Mexico
  • HIST 6201/LTAM 6251 Colloquium in Colonial Latin American History
  • HIST 6202/LTAM 6252 Colloquium in Modern Latin American History
  • LTAM 6300 Latin American Thought

Biography

Education:

Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1993.

Current Projects:

I am currently working on a book on U.S.-Mexican relations and second editions of two of my previous books.

Major Professional Service:

I am the editor of Viewpoints: Puntos de Vista: Themes and Interpretations in Latin American History, a book series with Wiley-Blackwell and “The Americas in the World,” a book series with the University of New Mexico Press.

I am Editor-in-Chief of The Latin Americanist.